I was "busy" all day today, but acheived nothing more than a slightly tidied house, and lots of videos watched.

Friday five.. hrm I think I might have trouble with this one

1. Who is your favorite celebrity? I don't really have a favourite at the moment.

2. Who is your least favorite? um..

3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life? I think the most famous person I've ever seen would be Princess Di - in 1988 for Australia Bicentennary celebrations she and Charles were cruising around Farm Cove on a boat waving to people. The most famous person I've seen up close would probably be David Hasselhoff - completely by fluke in New York, we were walking past a theatre where he was starring in a play and was outside the theatre signing autographs etc

4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not? Not really.

5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? gee I don't know. How about Emma Watson so I could spend a day on the set of the next Harry Potter movie..? :)

It's still Tuesday in oz.. normally we don't see the This or That's til Wednesday..

1. Sexier (female)...Pamela Anderson or Jennifer Garner? Well Pamela Anderson is a bit of a turn off, so Jennifer Garner I guess
2. Sexier (male)...Ben Affleck or Matt Damon? Neither really do it for me, but probably Matt Damon more
3. The better piano player...Billy Joel or Elton John? I've seen Billy Joel in concert once and it was awesome, so I'll say him
4. Funnier...David Letterman or Craig Kilborn? Don't watch either
5. The dumber cartoon cat...Stimpy (of *Ren & Stimpy*) or Tom (of *Tom & Jerry*)? Dunno
6. A better news anchor...Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather? Who writes this stuff? More international people, please, some of us have never heard of these dudes
7. A better TV chef...Emeril Lagasse or Jacques Pepin? See above
8. The trashier talk show host...Maury Povich or Jerry Springer? Who knows, never watched them (I don't even think they're on in australia)
9. The worse fast food burger joint...McDonald's or Burger King? I think Burger King makes slightly better burgers (more veggies), but McDonalds have perfected the French Fry
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: Only a handful of U.S. Presidents have been considered to be *great* Of the following two, which one do you consider to be greater...Franklin D. Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln? Why? Well I couldn't even tell you what Roosevelt achieved in his lifetime, so I guess I'd have to say Lincoln

Well that was a rather silly one (again). If this poor standard keeps up I probably won't keep up This or That.

OK so I didn't post yesterday - didn't get home til 1am, oops :) CIA party was great. I had a chicken caesar salad, roast duck, and a coconut and passionfruit torte. That, and a little wine and a few cocktails and good company and the whole evening passed by rather pleasantly :) Today disappeared entirely too quickly. I think I need a holiday.

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life? Three

2. Which was your favorite and why? Probably this place, since it's "mine" so to speak

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why? I actually like the packing and unpacking, but I don't like getting sweaty carring boxes and heavy things

4. What's more important, location or price? Both really

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)? Dream house hey..? Pool and spa sound good. A home theatre room with a decent setup. Lots of storage, and places to display my models etc! Also a kitchen with a dishwasher and lots of bench space.

I'm gonna have trouble thinking up stuff for this Friday Five :)

1. What was your most memorable moment from the last week?
The EvilHouse Harley Warming probably

2. What one person touched your life this week?
My mum gave me a hug, does that count as touching? hehe

3. How have you helped someone this week?
Me? Help anyone? hahahaa

4. What one thing do you need to get done by this time next week?
Tidy up

5. What one thing will you do over the next seven days to make your world a better place?
Maybe get some more fish :)

Twice a day I walk past a bunch of grass plants that are currently flowering. They have these big fluffy seed heads which I take great delight in running my hand over as I walk past them (kinda like Russell Crowe in Gladiator only these are a lot softer). It's the little things like this that make life worthwhile sometimes :)

Saw a pretty cool website last night - FireArtFanatics - check out their photo page, it's awesome.

One of my recent hobbies (aside from collecting ancient space lego) is reading blogs at random. There's an awful lot of students blogging out there, and most bloggers tend to be American it seems. Every so often I find one that's mostly interesting, and the blogger blogs most days. These I'm adding to a list, and one of these days I'll link them on mine so I can easily read them every day. If by chance you're reading this and think your blog is interesting, let me know and I'll have a look :)

Oh yeah, linked to on one of the blogs I've started reading was wilwheaton.net. It took me a moment to realise that it was *the* Wil Wheaton from Star Trek (among other things). It's pretty cool - it's an ordinary blog and the website was done entirely by him, so you get an insight into a star's life that's not being pushed by marketing people. Worth a read.

Spent the morning planning for tomorrow's server upgrades. We have so much to do it's not funny. For lunch we all wandered up to the pub for lunch for Peter's last day in the MCSU (for now at least). Straight after lunch I drove all the way out to CIA for a promised flu vaccination, but the mob that were doing it never turned up >:( So I hung around for nearly an hour before getting back to work just before 4pm. Got some more bits and pieces done before heading out to Oatley to pick up a few bits of space lego.

Trying to have a quiet night tonight, and neeeeed to be in bed by 10:30pm, as I'm gonna have another long day tomorrow - work all day, then the EvilHouse Harley Warming most of the night. Two hours to go before I need to be in bed, yet I'm only just now eating dinner (big lunch :) )

Friday Five time

1. If you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be? Jesus

2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be? If it had to be a different century, then probably the next one

3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be? hrm having to think about this one. There's a stack of places I'd like to visit, but I don't know about living there. Perhaps Austria or Switzerland, they're fantastically beautiful countries.

4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be? Superman, so I could FLY!

5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be? Leelee Sobieski

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This got emailed around today:

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy, France is accusing the US of
arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war."

Exactly thirteen years ago tonight, on the 17th March 1990, I saw Labyrinth for the first time. This began an obsession which lasted very strongly for a year and a half, and extends even til now.

The first time I saw it I fell totally in love with David Bowie. I still believe he looked in best in the mid eighties. This also became an obsession :)

After seeing the movie for the first time, I hired it from the local video store and watched it a couple more times. After this I knew I had to purchase my own copy so that I could watch it whenever I wanted. I watched it pretty much every Friday afternoon for the next year or so. I learnt the entire script off by heart (I can still recite it all while watching it). I taped the movie to audio tape so I could listen to it, and used this to write the entire script out in hard copy (14 double sided lined A4 pages of my handwriting). One time I wrote out "Dance Magic" after an exam in high school when I was waiting for the exam to finish.

I found a photo-storybook version of the book and borrowed it for a couple of months straight, drooling over all of the beautiful pictures of Jareth in it. I even did a couple of drawings of them using lead, and also colour pencils (see the scans below). I'd love to find that book again and buy it, but I haven't seen it since 1990 and don't even know who it was by or what it was called.

I also found the soundtrack CD and bought it - even before I had a CD player. I had to get a friend to tape it for me so I could listen to it! I then proceeded to collect most of David Bowie's CDs as they were released by EMI through 1990 and 1991.

So here I am watching it again. I now make a point of watching the movie every year around the 17th of March just for fun and to drool all over Mr Bowie all over again :)~ It's just finishing now.. and for the life of me I could never understand why she didn't say "yes" when he said "Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your *slave*" - I would have LOL ;)

Below are scans of the pencil drawings I did during the height of my Bowie obsession. The first one obviously is not Jareth, it was in another biography book I borrowed from Sutherland Library at the same time as the Labyrinth book. The original scans are on conspiracy.

The question was asked "what should I blog about today?" and the response was "MacGyver". So here I am, sitting at Striker's place, watching Octopussy (we just watched Roadkill hired on DVD), on the couch with Jim's old laptop, typing away. This is the life :)

Someone said someone should really get the entire MacGyver collection on DVD and we could watch that at video nights for some time into the future. Totally cool idea :) I *love* MacGyver :) I don't think I've ever seen it on DVD though - it's a bit old. I remember seeing it for the first time in 1988 (or was it 1989?) in high school thinking it was the coolest show in the world, and Richard Dean Anderson was utterly gorgeous, even with the mullet :)

For what it's worth, I also got some new fish today - a dozen neon tetras. They're very cute, although the angels have taken up chasing them instead of my betta (who I've named "Karma"). I was also going to call the two white angels Cherabim and Seraphim, and the two black ones Diablo and Lucifer, but haven't fully decided yet. Any suggestions anyone?

Had another good day today. Church in the morning, did a water change in my fish tank, as well as rearranging some of the plants. Apart from that just watched some tv and that was about it. Totally relaxing day :) (oh, and a load of washing up which wasn't too much fun, but I needed to do it so as not to feed the cockroach population)

Channel 7 have started up a new show called "Your Life on the Lawn". They empty the contents out of a family house (at least the bedrooms anyway) and the owners go through it all, sorting out the junk from the stuff they want to keep. The stuff they don't want to keep they sell at either garage sale or auction, or they throw out. And while they're at it, they give the rooms a face lift. The end result of course is quite spectacular.

If I had to do that, almost nothing would get thrown out or sold - pretty much everything I have has some sort of sentimental or "potential" value. As much as I'd love to get rid of the clutter in my life I just couldn't bear to part with anything. I just have to get more creative with my storage solutions :)

Well today was Valentine's Day. For me just another day.

For my parents, however, it was 33 years ago today that they got married :) To celebrate we went out for dinner (Mum and Dad, David and I) to a local chinese restaurant (which was quite crowded, obviously popular). It was all very pleasant and we all ate way too much, even taking home three "doggy bags" of leftovers :)

After dinner we all played a couple of games of five hundred, while watching "The World is Not Enough" on DVD.

Friday Five time!

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
Vic told me I should :) Apparently it's good for search engine rankings

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
A couple do. I don't like to publish myself too much. I figure the people most likely to read any of this are total strangers coming here looking for Avril Lavinge and Vodaphone topup codes (at least that's what the referrer logs say :) )

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
As the title says - "Boring Life Of a Geek" - I reckon that's what BLOG should stand for. Certainly what most blogs are about

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I don't have any direction planned. I will just blog randomly

5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
Pimp? What an ugly word. How about "plug". Well there's Vic and Janelle, and Striker who are the only people I know in real life who blog, and I've been reading FurryElectrician and still on the lookout for other interesting blogs to add to the list.

damn, missed the post again tonight.

Have to go to work tomorrow too :( Doing an upgrade to our notes server. Really must go to sleep now.. zzzzzz night...